Eco Club to the Rescue

Last Friday, we took an eco club down to the tree nursery of the local NGO. We selected fruit trees to plant at the Cultural House. But we took a nice ping pong break.


This guy here runs the NGO. We needed to pick out trees to plant at the Cultural House. But all the kids kept asking if they could have plants for their houses. He kept caving in. Top-notch guy.


on the way back up the hill to plant the trees


Believe it or not, this young man in front is the president of the eco club. All his friends call him Pupusa. His family owns a pupuseria. They sell pupusas (the national food, corn-based tortilla filled with cheese and served with tomato sauce and pickled cabbage).


Eat your heart out.


We stopped for a water break on the way to plant the trees. This picture is worth posting because Bruce looks like he´s dying from the heat.


fun with tree planting


A friend (and English student of ours) took us to a lake on the other side of San Miguel. It was beautiful.


The volcano emerges from the clouds.


This is our friend. He´s pretending to jetski. Really nice guy.

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NOTES

*El Salvador swore in its new President on June 1. Mauricio Funes. First leftwing leader in the country´s history. From a poli sci perspective, it´s fascinating to be here these days.

*La Seleccion, the national soccer team, won a big game against Mexico. But then we lost to Honduras. A World Cup 2010 berth is looking very slim.

*There was a decent-sized earthquake near Roatan, Honduras recently. It was the fourth temblor that we have felt here.

*Bruce lost his cell phone on a bus headed back from the capital. Pickpocket? Loose pants pockets? We don´t know.

*We just connected a UK company with a local coffee cooperative. They might do some sweet business together.

*We´re working with the mayor´s office and the town´s NGO to bring second-hand computers down here from an NGO in the States. The computers would be for the schools in the rural areas of our municipality. We have planned a marathon (well, a race of a few miles at least) for July.

*Next week we are taking four community leaders to a workshop on project design and management. It´s a three day-long workshop run by Peace Corps. It´s also at the beach. Nice.

*We´re really excited for our quickly approaching trip to the States. We miss everyone back home. Also shout outs to recent graduates Roger, Tim, and Maria!